Ivan the Terrible: So if Wikipedia is to be believed, Ivan a) beat his son's wife until she had a miscarriage because he didn't like it that she was "dressing immodestly" and b) when his son had the temerity to object, beat him with his scepter and killed him, which meant his younger son inherited who kinda sucked? (Oh, and huh, Feodor's minister was apparently Boris Godunov, whom I recognize from the opera, though I've only managed to watch the first... half an hour?? I should... maybe watch it so you guys can tell me how divorced from real life it is :) )
Charles XII and base 8: OMG. I mean, yeah, he's not wrong. But can you imagine a world in which part of it ran on base 10 and part on base 8... it would be orders of magnitude worse than metric/imperial. Oh Charles.
Blackstone: heh, Blackstone was in my passive memory -- I would not have been able to tell you with any precision, and I definitely didn't know that about the "best of all possible worlds" thing, but I knew it had something to do with the law, presumably from all that random 18th-19th-century English fiction I read a bunch of :P
Kalabalik: okay this is freaking AMAZING and Charles is BOTH awesome and crazy :P Also I am super tickled that it is still a word in Swedish!
Supercharles, and stories about same: ALSO both awesome and crazy :P I really really appreciate knowing when you are skeptical about stories, but... I also really like hearing the stories :D (ALso, totally agree, luzula, about invading Russia in the winter without enough hats! Or at all!
Pope Max: heh, that's a good story, and omg that French, it is too late at night for me to be able to follow it at all, although I am amused that he signs it "vostre bon père MAXIMILIANUS, futur pape." Lol! And ooooh cool I didn't know that about Elisabeth's daughter!
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Date: 2021-11-07 05:31 am (UTC)Charles XII and base 8: OMG. I mean, yeah, he's not wrong. But can you imagine a world in which part of it ran on base 10 and part on base 8... it would be orders of magnitude worse than metric/imperial. Oh Charles.
Blackstone: heh, Blackstone was in my passive memory -- I would not have been able to tell you with any precision, and I definitely didn't know that about the "best of all possible worlds" thing, but I knew it had something to do with the law, presumably from all that random 18th-19th-century English fiction I read a bunch of :P
Kalabalik: okay this is freaking AMAZING and Charles is BOTH awesome and crazy :P Also I am super tickled that it is still a word in Swedish!
Supercharles, and stories about same: ALSO both awesome and crazy :P I really really appreciate knowing when you are skeptical about stories, but... I also really like hearing the stories :D (ALso, totally agree,
Pope Max: heh, that's a good story, and omg that French, it is too late at night for me to be able to follow it at all, although I am amused that he signs it "vostre bon père MAXIMILIANUS, futur pape." Lol! And ooooh cool I didn't know that about Elisabeth's daughter!